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Thank you for visiting our WEB site and inquiring about our "Billboard Campaign". You might be asking "why have we placed billboard adds in our city and placed adds in our newspapers supporting Israel,"? Because "Congregation Zion's Sake" stands on the "Biblical Truth" of Adonai's eternal covenants regarding Israel and Eretz Israel (the Land of Israel). God promised this land to Israel forever, period! Jews, Christians, Muslims, and the world must know the truth of God's plan for the Jewish homeland and the reestablishment of Israel's biblical boarders that He Himself established. Please take a moment and read on as we look at numerous scriptures from the Tanach/Bible that outline God's plans and intentions regarding Israel and her land!

Deuteronomy 9:1-6 "Hear, O Israel! Today you are about to cross the Jordan River to occupy the land belonging to nations much greater and more powerful than you. They live in cities with walls that reach to the sky! They are strong and tall – descendants of the famous Anakite giants. You've heard the saying, 'Who can stand up to the Anakites?' But the LORD your God will cross over ahead of you like a devouring fire to destroy them. He will subdue them so that you will quickly conquer them and drive them out, just as the LORD has promised. 4 "After the LORD your God has done this for you, don't say to yourselves, 'The LORD has given us this land because we are so righteous!' No, it is because of the wickedness of the other nations that he is doing it. It is not at all because you are such righteous, upright people that you are about to occupy their land. The LORD your God will drive these nations out ahead of you only because of their wickedness, and to fulfill the oath he had sworn to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

We see that the Land was given to the Children of Israel by Adonai Himself, because of His oath and the wickedness of those nations living there at the time. Note: There has never physically been a people group called "Palestinians", nor is there one today! The people living in the land at the time Israel entered it from Egypt were Philistines who were completely absorbed by other cultures and no longer exist. The term "Palestine" came from Rome after the Bar Koba revolt in 164 C.E. The term "Palestine" was employed by an angry Rome as a humiliating insult against Israel. To degrade Israel, the term Palestine was used in reference to her historical arch enemy the Philistines, as a punishment for Israel's rebellion against Rome (this is historical fact recorded in the writings of Roman historian Flavius Josephus and others!) Most "Palestinians" are physically of Jordanian ancestry, Chairman Arafat was born in Egypt!

Psalms 105: 7-11 " He is the LORD our God. His rule is seen throughout the land. He always stands by His covenant – the commitment He made to a thousand generations. This is the covenant He made with Abraham and the oath He swore to Isaac. He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to the people of Israel as a never-ending treaty: "I will give you the land of Canaan as your special possession."

Psalms 135:12-14 "He gave their land as an inheritance, a special possession to His people Israel. Your name, O LORD, endures forever; your fame, O LORD, is known to every generation. For the LORD will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants."

El Shaddi proclaims that He "stands by His covenant", that His decree of giving Canaan to Israel is a "never ending treaty", for all generations, forever!

Psalm 147:1-2 "Praise the LORD! How good it is to sing praises to our God! How delightful and how right! The LORD is rebuilding Jerusalem and bringing the exiles back to Israel."

Father Himself is rebuilding Jerusalem and returning the Children of Israel from Diaspora (dispersion among the nations) back home to Israel and Jerusalem! This is happening world-wide, right now as you read this article!

Isaiah 11:10-16 " In that day the heir to David's throne will be a banner of salvation to all the world. The nations will rally to him, for the land where he lives will be a glorious place. In that day the Lord will bring back a remnant of his people for the second time, returning them to the land of Israel from Assyria, Lower Egypt, Upper Egypt, Ethiopia, Elam, Babylonia, Hamath, and all the distant coastlands. He will raise a flag among the nations for Israel to rally around. He will gather the scattered people of Judah from the ends of the earth. Then at last the jealousy between Israel and Judah will end. They will not fight against each other anymore. They will join forces to swoop down on Philistia to the west. Together they will attack and plunder the nations to the east. They will occupy all the lands of Edom, Moab, and Ammon. The LORD will make a dry path through the Red Sea. He will wave his hand over the Euphrates River, sending a mighty wind to divide it into seven streams that can easily be crossed. He will make a highway from Assyria for the remnant there, just as he did for Israel long ago when they returned from Egypt."

Isaiah 14:1 "For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob."

Jeremiah 23:7-8 "In that day," says the LORD, "when people are taking an oath, they will no longer say, 'As surely as the LORD lives, who rescued the people of Israel from the land of Egypt.' Instead, they will say, 'As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the people of Israel back to their own land from the land of the north and from all the countries to which he had exiled them.' Then they will live in their own land."

Amos 9:14-15 "And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God."

The Children of Israel will return a second and last time to re-inhabit the entire land that God gave them, as the bible explicitly states! There is no confusion in this matter. No nation, religion, or people group has replaced Israel and any political agenda, doxology, or theology that claims to have replaced Israel is a lie and not of God! God states in Jeremiah 31:35-36 that as long as the sun, moon, and stars are in the sky, a remnant of Israel will inhabit the earth. Father states that if the sun or moon no longer shines or rises, then the offspring of Israel will cease to be a nation! Look towards the heavens and you will see God's heart and the truth concerning Israel every day! Israel is God's time clock!

Why is the nation of Israel (slightly larger then the state of Rhode Island) on the front page of the worlds newspapers every day? Because His Holy Word prophecies that this would be the case and Satan attempts to de-rail God's Holy Word, read on!

Zechariah 2:10-13 "The LORD says, "Shout and rejoice, O Jerusalem, for I am coming to live among you. Many nations will join themselves to the LORD on that day, and they, too, will be my people. I will live among you, and you will know that the LORD Almighty sent me to you. The land of Judah will be the LORD's inheritance in the holy land, and he will once again choose Jerusalem to be his own city. Be silent before the LORD, all humanity, for he is springing into action from his holy dwelling."

Zechariah 12:2-4 "I will make Jerusalem and Judah like an intoxicating drink to all the nearby nations that send their armies to besiege Jerusalem. On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone, a burden for the world. None of the nations who try to lift it will escape unscathed. "On that day, says the LORD, I will cause every horse to panic and every rider to lose his nerve. I will watch over the people of Judah, but I will blind the horses of her enemies."

God states in Genesis 12:3 to Abraham and the great Nation (Israel) that was to emerge from his seed, "I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you". Just as our billboard states, "He who touches Israel, touches the apple of God's eye". To be blessed by God, one needs to bless Israel! If America desires to be blessed, it must bless Israel, the Apple of God's eye! We love the Arab people as does God, but the land of Israel belongs to Israel, period. God's word declares to the world that any action or thought that promotes removal of any portion of land from the nation of Israel or any foreign invasion or foreign rule is contrary to the very word of God and those perpetrators will be cursed by God and suffer His rath as stated in Genesis 12! Please read the following few facts about the situation as prepared by Jim Bramlett:

1. Nationhood and Jerusalem. Israel became a nation in 1312 B.C. two thousand years before the rise of Islam.

2. Arab refugees in Israel began identifying themselves as part of a Palestinian people in 1967, two decades after the establishment of the modern State of Israel.

3. Since the Jewish conquest in 1272 B.C. the Jews have had dominion over the land for one thousand years with a continuous presence in the land for the past 3,300 years.

4. The only Arab dominion since the conquest in 635 A. D. lasted no more than 22 years.

5. For over 3,300 years, Jerusalem has been the Jewish capital. Jerusalem has never been the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. Even when the Jordanians occupied Jerusalem, they never sought to make it their capital, and Arab leaders did not come to visit.

6. Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in Tanach, the Jewish Holy Scriptures. Jerusalem is not mentioned once in the Qur'an.

7. King David founded the city of Jerusalem. Mohammed never came to Jerusalem.

8. Jews pray facing Jerusalem. Muslims pray with their backs toward Jerusalem.

9. Arab and Jewish Refugees: In 1948 the Arab refugees were encouraged to leave Israel by Arab leaders promising to purge the land of Jews. Sixty-eight percent left without ever seeing an Israeli soldier.

10. The Jewish refugees were forced to flee from Arab lands due to Arab brutality, persecution and pogroms.

11. The number of Arab refugees who left Israel in 1948 is estimated to be around 630,000. The number of Jewish refugees from Arab lands is estimated to be the same.

12. Arab refugees were intentionally not absorbed or integrated into the Arab lands to which they fled, despite the vast Arab territory. Out of the 100,000,000 refugees since World War II, theirs is the only refugee group in the world that has never been absorbed or integrated into their own peoples' lands. Jewish refugees were completely absorbed into Israel, a country no larger than the state of New Jersey.

13. The Arab -Israeli Conflict: The Arabs are represented by eight separate nations, not including the Palestinians. There is only one Jewish nation. The Arab nations initiated all five wars and lost. Israel defended itself each time and won.

14. The PLO's Charter still calls for the destruction of the State of Israel. Israel has given the Palestinians most of the West Bank land, autonomy under the Palestinian Authority, and has supplied them with weapons. [See Fatah Charter/Constitution]

15. Under Jordanian rule, Jewish holy sites were desecrated and the Jews were denied access to places of worship. Under Israeli rule, all Muslim and Christian sites have been preserved and made accessible to people of all faiths.

16. The UN Record on Israel and the Arabs: Of the 175 Security Council resolutions passed before 1990; there were 97 directed against Israel.

17. Of the 690 General Assembly resolutions voted on before 1990, 429 were directed against Israel.

18. The UN was silent while 58 Jerusalem Synagogues were destroyed by the Jordanians.

19. The UN was silent while the Jordanians systematically desecrated the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives.

20. The UN was silent while the Jordanians enforced an apartheid-like policy of preventing Jews from visiting the Temple Mount and the Western Wall.

Finally, in the "End of Time", God has a mighty plan for Israel and Jerusalem that will bring all nations together to worship the "One True God", the living God of Israel!
Zechariah 14:16-17 "In the end, the enemies of Jerusalem who survive the plague will go up to Jerusalem each year to worship the King, the LORD Almighty, and to celebrate the Festival of Sukkot (Tabernacles). And any nation anywhere in the world that refuses to come to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD Almighty, will have no rain."

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Baruch HaShem,

Messianic Rabbi Eric Carlson